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Gas outburst kills 5 in SW China mine
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November 29, 2012, Thursday
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FIVE people were killed and two injured in a coal mine gas outburst in southwest China's Guizhou Province early today, local authorities said.
The accident occurred at about 4 am under a transportation shaft of Nengtong Coal Mine in Pu'an county of Qianxinan prefecture when nine workers were doing maintenance work, the county government said in a press release.
Of four people who managed to escape to safety, two were under medical treatment but suffered no life-threatening injuries. The rest five were killed as emergency treatment failed to save their lives.
All coal mines in Pu'an County have been ordered to suspend production for a sweeping safety inspection.
A deputy director of the county bureau of work safety and mayor and a deputy mayor of the town where the coal mine is located were suspended from their posts.
The Nengtong Coal Mine has an annual production capacity of 150,000 tons.
The accident occurred at about 4 am under a transportation shaft of Nengtong Coal Mine in Pu'an county of Qianxinan prefecture when nine workers were doing maintenance work, the county government said in a press release.
Of four people who managed to escape to safety, two were under medical treatment but suffered no life-threatening injuries. The rest five were killed as emergency treatment failed to save their lives.
All coal mines in Pu'an County have been ordered to suspend production for a sweeping safety inspection.
A deputy director of the county bureau of work safety and mayor and a deputy mayor of the town where the coal mine is located were suspended from their posts.
The Nengtong Coal Mine has an annual production capacity of 150,000 tons.
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